Gyp

I'll admit that I've not ridden the Versys, but can say that adventure bikes, especially the mid capacity ones, make excellent every-day bikes. Comfortable, sensible riding position, well suspended and luggage to bring home some shopping if need be. Surprisingly, adventure bikes are generally quicker than sports bikes over traditional British A and B roads because of the better visibility and ability to cope with the road conditions If I was sensible, I reckon the Versys could well be the one bike I'd actually ever need.

I'd already negotiated over £1000 off. I'm sure if I'd paid the asking they'd have delivered for free.

From the dealership it's about a 600-mile round trip. Because they do their own delivery rather than an independent transporter, they deliver directly rather than collecting and delivering round the country. With the 10 hours plus driving and then the loading and unloading they were budgeting for 2 days with an overnight stop. Looking at it that way it sounds like a realistic charge; 2 days labour, 600 miles on the van and a night in a Premier Inn (allowed as the delivery is a commercial activity) The lad and myself will have to do the round trip in a day as COVID rules do not yet allow us to have a hotel room or stay with friends, but it'll be an adventure... Even doing it ourselves with a fairly economical car it'll cost about £150 in fuel, and with a couple of detours we're taking on the way back we'll be driving about 1000 miles that day between us. Actually, all of a sudden the £330 doesn't seem that bad!

OK, as we got the Kent variety of the virus announced on the day after I slapped down my debit card and we then went into lockdown, delivery didn't happen in January. Nor February. And not March either. Now planning to collect from the dealership (saving £330 delivery fee) on Good Friday. If it's snowing at Easter, I apologise. It's my fault.

I own motorcycles and have spend a fortune on unnecessary trinkets (and unnecessary whole bikes to be fair) so I'll not criticise too loudly :-)

I expect so, and might make sense if being done in addition to a front brake, suspension and wheel/tyre upgrade but on their own not necessary. You also hit the issue of modified car insurance, which I remember was a headache when I wanted to upgrade the brakes on my Yeti.

plus the cost of the specialist pipes (or are they cables) that need fabricating then the fitting cost so likely nearer £750 all in.

It looks like a nice enough kit, but my main question would be "why?" The Citigo/Up! doesn't feel underbraked and there's no noticeable problem with front-rear brake balance. Unless I'm mistaken even the Up! Gti has drums. The only issue I have is that the pads can get stuck to the drums if parked with the handbrake on for an extended period. If it 's for style when looking through alloys then fair enough, but it seems to be trying to solve a non-problem

I previously got caught with their 12 year (IIRC) anti corrosion warranty - I got rust, it got repaired under the warranty, the rust reappeared but was no longer covered as the repair was only covered for a year...

As Skoda have been involved in the process - dealer called skoda to ask advice on how to resolve problem - I'm comfortable that I can push skoda to resolve if the problem recurs

Yes, still under warranty for another 4 or 5 weeks.

It's a 2018 car with about 25,000 very gentle miles on it (perhaps that's the problem) Yes, it's a 1.4TSi so it would be the DQ200. I'm guessing that it's fairly rare in a Superb as most go for the larger engine with the different gearbox

Having had a "gearbox in emergency mode no reverse gear" message and fun at the dealership last week I thought I'd pop in here to see what the mood was. Seems like there's a lot of discussion about the Mechatronic in the Octavia/Yeti/Fabia subgroups but not in the Superb group. Odd. No idea why, anyway, having had the car for a few days, the dealer nor Skoda found anything to replace so did a gearbox reset and sent me on my way. Glad it happened and was recorded with Skoda just before the warranty ran out rather than after, so if it happens again I can go and give them my best Paddington stare.

Great news, thank you I alway like having Driving data -> Range displayed on the Maxidot. When using adaptive cruise and stop start, every time the engine restarts (in stop start traffic), the maxidot moves to the next one of the driving data displays; range -> av consumption -> consumption -> speed ->avg speed -> distance -> travelling time -> range Pity

Does the bumper/tailgate have captive nuts for the numberplates? I'm looking to change my plates and want to know if it's a 2 minute job or a half day scrabbling around in the cold. Can I stop the vehicle information display changing when using the adaptive cruise? Every time I stop in traffic and restart it skips to the next display. Any way of showing the ODO rather than the trip when cruise is on?

Not sure this was the right week to add a large capacity touring motorcycle to the fleet. Delivery in Jan

Confirmed this morning - drove to work and within a mile or so the oil temp gauge started to move above 50C and the water temp gauge on the digital display didn't move even though the water temp on the clocks rose happily to 90. A quick flick from the dials to the (ridiculous) lap timer and back and the water temp was then showing 90. Driving home after lunch, I fiddled around with the gauges after starting the car, and within 2 miles the water was at 90 and the oil was about 60. So I now know the oil and water both warm up nice and quickly but the fancy display doesn't work reliably. Ho hum.

Noting today that the water temp is almost immediately up to the magic 90C, I thought I'd have a look to see when the oil got up to a decent operating temperature. I was somewhat surprised that even at the end of my 10 mile drive home today (14C air temp), which included climbing the nice and steep Birdlip hill in Gloucestershire, the oil temp gauge on the (stop laughing) Sport display hadn't started registering.

OK, slightly premature as I've not exactly started it as yet, however this is here as a placeholder to make sure I get it done and done quickly. i don't want this project to hang around too long! The plan for the Two-Piece Not Quite So Variable Boot Floor is to have two pieces of wood that form the raised boot floor, with a join betwixt the two roughly half way back. Each piece of which can be lifted out if required, but the expectation is that the rear most section would be put in last/lifted out first. So far I've bought... the board for the new boot floor from B&Q and had it cut to size - 15mm OSB 2 board, 610mm deep for the forward section and 540mm for the rearward and both 1 metre wide. £21.83 all in. https://www.diy.com/departments/osb-2-board-th-15mm-w-607mm-l-1220mm/81234_BQ.prd the carpet, carpet glue and lifting handle from Amazon https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00ZA5VIRE £9.98 + £4.99 https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01DIRB7OO £6.69 https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01B4WUXO0 £6.99 That's £50.48 so far I reckon one of these at £3.91, https://www.diy.com/departments/c16-cls-timber-t-38mm-w-89mm-l-2400mm/1798297_BQ.prd cut into sections and screwed to the underside of the OSB will give me the right height above the existing deck. If my measurements are right, the board should sit just above the lip on the tailpiece, and be slightly lower than the top of the lip. I'm intending to position the support battens on the front piece to rest against the front of the boot floor such that when both floor pieces are in place, the floor should not move about. Ignoring the cost of the screws and staples that I've got in the garage already, I'm expecting my TPNQSVBF to set me back just under £55 and a couple of hours of shaping, drilling, screwing, glueing and cursing. Ideally less time that it took to set up Skoda Connect and get that working. Well that's the theory anyway. I'll report back on progress (or go very quiet and hide in a corner if it all goes wrong). Whatever, nothing will happen before Wednesday when I get my B&Q discount ;-)